South Dakota, You So Crazy

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South Dakota has shelved the bill allowing "justifiable homicide" in defense of a fetus.

In its place, the SD House just passed a bill mandating that women must consult with anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers before getting an abortion.. There do not appear to be any exceptions, so if that fetus is dying or killing you, you'd still have to listen to a lecture by an untrained counsellor telling you it's *their* God's will you stay pregnant.

And I'm SURE that NOBODY in such a center would DREAM of putting off that mandatory appointment until the clock ran out on a legal early abortion.

There's no point in getting too worked up because there's no way in hell it would survive a legal challenge even if it passed into law. But seriously, who thought that was a good idea?

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GOOD NEWS! The Justice Dept. has quit its legal defense of the anti-gay-marriage DOMA act. They'd said they were legally required to defend it, since it was law, but have decided it's a rotten law (slightly after many of the rest of us did).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/23/AR2011022303428.html?hpid=topnews


Also, on previous topic, Ruth Marcus' column points out that the GOP meat-ax approach to de-funding family planning will mean more abortions and more deficit spending:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022205350.html